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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. WALBRIDGE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

l POCKET-COM B.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,170, dated May 16, `i882.

Application filed April 6, 18:42. (No model.) i H To all whom 'it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN H. WALBRIDGE, of the city, county, and State ot' New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pocket-Combs, ot' which the following is a specification.'

The object of the invention is to provide a comb arranged in a case or sheath in suitable andconvenientform to be carriedin the pocket.

The invention consists in the comb and sheath provided wit-l1 springs for holding the comb in an extended position,in the forma` tion ofthe comb and its case, and in the ar rangement cfa spring-catch for holding the` comb when pushed into its case.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section of the case or sheath, and a side view ot' the comb when eX- tended or in position for use. Fig. 2 is alike section ofthe case, the comb being shown as pushed in and held in that position by the spring-catch. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section of the comb and case. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section of the case, showing the position of the spiral springs and the head ofthe case against which they abut. Fig. 5 is a transverse longitudinal section, showing the spring-catch and its relations to the comb and case.

In all the drawings, similar letters of reference represent corresponda g parts.

A is the comb. B is the case, made otany suitable material, such as hard rubber, celluloid, wood, bone, ivory, horn, &c. The case B isV of flattened elliptical section, and is provided inside With two channels, C C', in which are placed spiral springs D. These springs at one end bear against the back or closed end ofthe case B, and at the other against the inner end of the comb A, so that their tendency in expanding is to push the comb out of its sheath or case. The inner end ot' the comb is provided with asuitable enlargement or shoulder, E, and said enlarged portion above and below enters the channels C C. The channels C C are contracted at F, and against the shoulders thus formed of the material of the case the enlargement or shoulder E on the end ofthe comb abuts when the latter is pushed outward. The comb is thus prevented from being forced by its springs entirely 'out of the case. The back or upper portion of the comb is made rounded with channels on each side, so as to iit into the channel C' of the case B, and thus prevent the comb` from binding upon being projected from the case.

In order to retain the comb in'place after it is pushed into its sheath, a spring-catch, G, is attached to the ca se at one end. The free end ofthe catch is bent upward, and the projection thus formed enters anotch, H, made in the side ot' the comb in front of the enlargement E. i

The interior ot' the case B is made large at the.top and tapering' nearly to a point at the bottom, with the channel C above and channel G below. The interior of the case is thus rendered approximately the same shape as the comb.

What I claim as new, and desire lo secure by Letters Patent, is 4 p 1. The combination ot'a comb having an enlarged or shouldered portion at one end with a case or sheath having formed within it a channel or channels in which said shouldered portion lits and slides, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a comb and sheath formed and arranged as set forth, of a spiral spring or springs for causing and maintaining the protruding ot' the comb from the sheath, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with acomb, a sheath,

and spiral springs, as described, of a spring- 1;.,

catch for retainingthe comb in its sheath, subf stantially as set forth.

4. The combination ot' the comb A, sheath B, springs D, and catch G, substantially as described.

JOHN II. WALBRIDGE.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. BENJAMIN, EUGENE BAN'rA. 

